AgentsTools pricing: news API, GET / gdelt/ news
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$8.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run AgentsTools through our news API benchmark yet.We rank 851 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.20 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 18% of the 851 plans.Alpaca's $99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows. AnswerLine's Starter plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/ news/ cryptocurrency/ {symbol}) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.The New York Times, Scrappa and SerpScraper.dev are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: x402 pay per call AgentsTools's only plan
Call:
GET / gdelt/ news one of AgentsTools's 3 calls for this APIGET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$5.00 per 1,000crypto/ news GET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$8.00 per 1,000gdelt/ news GET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$3.00 per 1,000search/ news
API: News API one of AgentsTools's 8 APIs
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About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
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- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional:gdelt/ news query,theme,country,lang,timespan,limit,sort. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
AgentsTools: news API alternatives
AgentsTools alternatives: other news API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planAgentsTools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /gdelt/news | API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch | Clair, $300 monthly | NewsData.io, $1,919.99 yearly, Basic (yearly), GET /1/crypto | NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $400 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 |
| Completeness | 17% | 83% | 67% | 100% | 83% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay as you go | monthly | yearly | monthly |
| Pay | per call | at a threshold | $300 | $1,919.99 | $400 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 37,500 calls a month | 20,000 calls a month | 50,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base from a wallet (x402) | at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract | anyone | anyone with a company or academic email address |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Most per search | 250 |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| Their pitch | Recent global news articles from the GDELT Project by topic, country, entity or theme, normalized to title, link-back url, domain, source-country, language and ISO timestamp — plus coverage breakdowns (top source-countries, top domains, languages, count) derived from the same result. One call instead of querying and parsing GDELT yourself. |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
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| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | nothing required. Optional: query, theme, country, lang, timespan, limit, sort |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /gdelt/news |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
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| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base from a wallet (x402) |
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, title, URL, domain, source country, language, seen date, image URL, top source countries, top domains, top languages, attribution